Today, I am reading and commenting on Psalms 72-77.
The first of today’s psalms calls on God to endow the king with justice as God see justice. The psalmist asks God to make it so that the king defends the afflicted, saves the children of the needy, and crushes the oppressor. Let us pray something similar for those in positions of government authority today. And yet, we often do not have such rulers. Instead we have the opposite. It would be all too easy for us to slip when such is the case and conclude that the effort to keep our hearts pure and our hands innocent is in vain. We begin to envy the wicked and the arrogant. When we see how they appear to prosper, we may begin to wonder if perhaps we should have acted similarly. But, if we enter into God’s presence, we will see that nothing they possess compares to being able to commune with God. When the time is right, God will sweep them aside, but those who love and obey God will be taken into His glory. Today we may see the wicked mock and revile God, but I will praise Him and tell of His deeds. There are those who speak of “settled science” and “settled law”, but God reveals that only that which conforms to His will is truly settled for all time. Let us praise God, and tell all who will listen of what He has done.
Surely God is good to Israel,
to those who are pure in heart.
2 But as for me, my feet had almost slipped;
I had nearly lost my foothold.
3 For I envied the arrogant
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
If I had spoken out like that,
I would have betrayed your children.
But as for me, it is good to be near God.
I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge;
I will tell of all your deeds.
I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.